Rad Parenting

By Joe Sib and Anea Bogue

Kids & Family

What's Rad Parenting about?

She’s an expert. He’s not. But they're both parents. Together, they help you navigate the willful waters of parenting. Hosted by author/self-esteem expert Anea Bogue, M.A., B. Ed, and comedian/record label owner Joe Sib, Rad Parenting is your go-to podcast to answer all of the difficult questions that come along with raising kids. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Sometimes as parents we need shortcuts to get all the things done in a busy day. Some of us feel guilty taking shortcuts because we think they might short-change our children. Turns out some of the best parenting shortcuts can ...

Rad Parenting episodes:

10.28.2018 Parenting Shortcuts with Benefits Sometimes as parents we need shortcuts to get all the things done in a busy day. Some of us feel guilty taking shortcuts because we think they might short-change our children. Turns out some of the best parenting shortcuts can ...
10.21.2018 Being a United Front...Even with Blended Families Joe and Anea take their popular ‘United Front’ episode to the next level. How can you still be a united front as parents after divorce AND once new partners are in the mix? Tune in to find out. Hosted on ...
10.14.2018 Expectations Are Your Enemy Joe sets the stage for a great show when he calls himself out for having big expectations for his family...the kind that frequently leave him feeling like a failure. Turns out most of us carry impossible expectations that leave us ...
10.07.2018 What Does it Mean to be an Askable Adult? We want our children to feel like they could come to us with anything from the time they are tiny thru their teen years. In the Age of Me Too, it is especially important that our kids come to us ...
09.30.2018 LIfe Hacks for Parents We all deal with the daily challenge of trying to be great parents in the face of limited time, energy, and resources. Cue the ‘Life Hacks’! Shelli Wright, Life Hacker Extraordinaire, joins Joe and Anea to share some of her ...
09.23.2018 Who Changed Math?! As if we don’t have enough challenges as parents, now we have to re-learn math so we can help our kids do their homework?! Educational Consultant and Math Geek Chase Orton joins Joe and Anea to explain what Common Core ...
09.16.2018 Dropping the Judgment of Other Parents A Buzzfeed survey showed that 73% of parents judge other parents. Why do so many of us judge and how might this be detrimental to us all, including our kids? Joe and Anea challenge us to consider how we might ...
09.09.2018 Modeling a Healthy Relationship With Our Partner Our relationship with our partner plays an important role in parenting. It is, after all, not only the foundation for our family, but the model for relationships with others that our kids see every day of their young lives. How ...
09.02.2018 When Their Values Veer From Yours Sooner or later, our children start making it very clear that they are their own person and when that includes holding values that are different from our own it can feel like a gut punch. What can we do to ...
08.26.2018 Creating Quality Relationships with Your Kids Relationships with our children are every bit as important and demand all the same efforts as a relationship with the adults in our life. Remember, “what you water grows.” Quality time invested in becoming a calm, grounded parent with whom ...
08.19.2018 What Goes Into Boys 'Being Boys' As Joe ponders what might possibly make his son jump off a 12 foot wall into their pool Anea sheds light on the impact of Nature and Nurture when it comes to the way boys (and girls) tend to move ...
08.12.2018 Two Minds,Two Hearts,One Child Raising kids is already super challenging but what do we do when we're at odds with our co-parent on HOW to parent them. If you have differing opinions on how to raise your kids when it comes to things like ...
08.05.2018 Parents Put Down Your Phones! When a swim teacher wrote a letter to parents asking them to get off their phones and watch their kids, it got our attention. How important is it to be super focused on your child when they are participating in ...
07.29.2018 Best of Summer 2018:School Shootings and Other Tragedies- Help! What Can I say To My Kids In response to listener emails about the recent tragic shooting in Florida, Joe and Anea tackle the first of two episodes on how to talk to your children after a school shooting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07.22.2018 Best of Summer 2018:Tools For Toddler Tantrums Among the biggest challenges we face with toddlers is the dreaded tantrum. Why do tantrums happen and what can we do when they happen? Joe and Anea offer tips you can use that will help you in the moment and ...
07.15.2018 Best of Summer 2018: Balancing Our 'No's' With More 'Yes's' Sometimes saying 'no' becomes a knee jerk reaction with our kids and we need to take a beat and offer a few more 'yes's'. Inspired by the story of a mom who realized the importance of saying yes after her ...
07.09.2018 Best of Summer 2018:Parenting with Facts Not Fear One of the most common mistakes we make as parents is inserting our own fear, biases, and opinions into responses we give to our children's questions. Joe and Anea explore how this can limit our children's healthy development, their experience ...
06.24.2018 Conscious Parenting in the Presence of Judgmental Eyes No matter how strong our commitment is to being conscious, present parents who leave their egos at the door, we can get quickly derailed if we have to deal with a challenging parenting moment in the face of seemingly judgmental ...
06.18.2018 Losing Your Identity When You Become a Parent Losing our identity when we become parents often feels inevitable, especially for those of us who are stay at home parents. What can you do to hold on to your identity and why is this important even in your (marital) ...
06.11.2018 Good Job Vs. Good Try While we all want our children to feel good about themselves is there ever a time when we are doing them a disservice by applauding every little outcome even when they haven't fully completed a job or truly done their ...
06.03.2018 To Chore, or Not to Chore? Wondering about the value of having your kids do chores around the house? Wishing you would have started chore responsibilities with your child and think it's too late? Joe and Anea chat about their own childhood and parenting experiences along ...
05.27.2018 Selfish is not a Four Letter Word The word "selfish" has been used as a criticism and a shaming word for generations. But how much better might we be as humans and as parents if our most important job was to actually BE "selfish" in terms of ...
05.20.2018 Unexpected Solo Parenting Most parents living in two-parent homes still frequently settle into a consistent separation of kid duties they are primarily responsible for (whether balanced or not). So what happens when one parent has to be away for an extended period of ...
05.13.2018 Parenting-What the Hell Did I Get Myself Into? Many of us freak out when we have those "What was I thinking when I decided to have this kid?!" moments. But as it turns out, whether you're dealing with a newborn, the 'Terrible Two's' or the adolescent years, it's ...
05.06.2018 Arguing in Front of the Kids: The Do's and Dont's Arguments are going to happen in relationships but how do we navigate an argument with our partner when the kids are around? Tune in to find out how conflict can provide powerful opportunities for teaching and modeling if we start ...
04.29.2018 Father like Daughter At your wit's end with your child's challenging behavior? Wondering why no one pushes your buttons like your child does? As it turns out, big internal reactions to our child's behavior are mostly about us. Joe and Anea tackle a ...
04.22.2018 What is Discipline? One of the biggest challenges we face as parents is how to effectively "discipline" our children. If our goal is to engage in conscious parenting, how can we think carefully about the essence of the child-parent relationship in order to ...
04.15.2018 Navigating the Puberty Party Has your preteen jumped on the emotional roller coaster that is part of the puberty party? Are you pulling your hair out trying to figure out how you're going to survive the adolescent ride? Tune in as Joe and Anea ...
04.09.2018 What's in a Name? Getting ready to have a baby? Just thinking about having a baby? Among the many 'get ready' steps you need to go through, choosing a name is a heavy item on the list. How can you move through this process ...
04.01.2018 #MeToo in 4th Grade?! Imagine your 10-year-old daughter coming home and telling you that a boy at school said to her, "I'm going squish your pussy." What do you do? What do you say to her? How do you deal with the school? Tune ...
03.25.2018 Parenting with Facts Not Fear One of the most common mistakes we make as parents is inserting our own fear, biases, and opinions into responses we give to our children's questions. Joe and Anea explore how this can limit our children's healthy development, their experience ...
03.18.2018 Revisiting:Big Emotions in Front of Little Minds With Joe and Anea both on the road this week, we decided to revisit one of Rad Parenting's most popular episodes to date. Parents are human and that means we experience emotions. Many of us think we are always supposed ...
03.11.2018 Balancing Our 'No's' With More 'Yes's' Sometimes saying 'no' becomes a knee jerk reaction with our kids and we need to take a beat and offer a few more 'yes's'. Inspired by the story of a mom who realized the importance of saying yes after her ...
03.04.2018 School Shootings and Other Tragedies- Help! What Can I say To My Child? In response to listener emails about the recent tragic shooting in Florida, Joe and Anea tackle the first of two episodes on how to talk to your children after a school shooting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.25.2018 Guiding Vs. Programming It may seem easiest to just plug our kids into our own values and ways of moving through the world. But if we want our kids to be able to make good choices in our absence and to develop into ...
02.18.2018 Parenting in Your Own Lane Have you ever had to deal with that parent in your community who feels compelled to passive-aggressively offer commentary on a parenting choice you've made? Joe and Anea have and on this episode they're sharing their stories and offering tips ...
02.11.2018 Parenting, Mini Vans and Vasectomies Comedian and Screenwriter Bryan Erwin joins Joe and Anea to talk about his new comedy film 'FIXED'. What do you do when you wake up one day and find that the parenting train wasn't quite what you thought it was ...
02.04.2018 Tools For Toddler Tantrums Among the biggest challenges we face with toddlers is the dreaded tantrum. Why do tantrums happen and what can we do when they happen? Joe and Anea offer tips you can use that will help you in the moment and ...
01.28.2018 Marriage: The Good,The Bad,The Reality Many of us have great marriages until we face the challenges of parenting. On this 100th episode Joe and Anea get real (and very transparent) on why it's so important to nurture your relationship or marriage as a core part ...
01.22.2018 Are We Taking Our Kids Off Their Own Path? Is it really possible to love the heck out of our kids, make them the center of our world AND constantly remember that they are completely separate humans on their own path? Turns out it's not only possible, it's essential ...
01.17.2018 The Need Behind the Action Last week Sarah Silverman demonstrated the importance of looking behind a person's 'bad' behavior to see what's actually going on. As it turns out, there's an important tool for parenting in her inspiring response to a belligerent tweet - as ...
01.09.2018 Family Vacations Through Your Rearview Mirror Welcome to RAD Parenting 2018! Joe and Anea kick off the year by reflecting on Joe's family trip over the holidays - everything that went right AND wrong. How can we all learn from the trips many of us just ...
12.17.2017 Raising an only child? Raising an only child and freaking out about how to ensure that they aren't going to be anti-social, non-sharing little brats? Have no fear! There are many steps we can take to create opportunities to learn many of the social ...
12.10.2017 Altruism and creating happy and empowered kids. Anea spent a day in prison (Yup! You read that correctly) and it ended up sparking a show all about the benefits of teaching our kids altruism. Beyond teaching our kids to simply 'choose kind', actually encouraging them to engage ...
12.03.2017 Let's talk about 'different' What do you tell your child when s/he starts to notice and express differences they see in others? Whether it's a person with different color skin, different shaped body, or someone on the autism spectrum, just to name a few, ...
11.29.2017 Being a Rad Parent During The Holiday Season With the holiday season upon us, various parenting challenges will inevitably present themselves. How can we teach our kids to honor their own traditions as well as those of others? What do we do about the rampant consumerism that can ...
11.19.2017 "Mom! Dad! Look what I found?" Imagine your 12-year-old snooping in your bedroom and finding a sex toy. That's exactly what happened to a Rad Parenting listener and Joe and Anea tackle what to say and do if it happens to you. You might want to ...
11.12.2017 Diversity, Bullying, Lying, & Death We love getting questions from the Rad Parenting community and today Joe and Anea are answering them on air. Tune in to hear a rad mix of topics all in one episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11.05.2017 Parenting in the face of a sexual assault epidemic As we watch the reality of sexual assault finally coming to the surface, many parents are wondering how to raise healthy girls and boys who will not find themselves becoming either victims or perpetrators of sexual assault in their teen ...
10.29.2017 "I'm 44 yrs old, lets get pregnant!" Sarah Douger joins Joe and Anea to discuss her extraordinary journey from Punk Rocker to Professor to 'mother of advanced maternal age.' What happens when we find ourselves ready to be parents but our bodies have a different plan? What ...

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What's Rad Parenting about?

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Rad Parenting episodes:

Parenting Shortcuts with Benefits

Being a United Front...Even with Blended Families

Expectations Are Your Enemy

What Does it Mean to be an Askable Adult?

LIfe Hacks for Parents

Who Changed Math?!

Dropping the Judgment of Other Parents

Modeling a Healthy Relationship With Our Partner

When Their Values Veer From Yours

Creating Quality Relationships with Your Kids

What Goes Into Boys 'Being Boys'

Two Minds,Two Hearts,One Child

Parents Put Down Your Phones!

Best of Summer 2018:School Shootings and Other Tragedies- Help! What Can I say To My Kids

Best of Summer 2018:Tools For Toddler Tantrums

Best of Summer 2018: Balancing Our 'No's' With More 'Yes's'

Best of Summer 2018:Parenting with Facts Not Fear

Conscious Parenting in the Presence of Judgmental Eyes

Losing Your Identity When You Become a Parent

Good Job Vs. Good Try

To Chore, or Not to Chore?

Selfish is not a Four Letter Word

Unexpected Solo Parenting

Parenting-What the Hell Did I Get Myself Into?

Arguing in Front of the Kids: The Do's and Dont's

Father like Daughter

What is Discipline?

Navigating the Puberty Party

What's in a Name?

#MeToo in 4th Grade?!

Parenting with Facts Not Fear

Revisiting:Big Emotions in Front of Little Minds

Balancing Our 'No's' With More 'Yes's'

School Shootings and Other Tragedies- Help! What Can I say To My Child?

Guiding Vs. Programming

Parenting in Your Own Lane

Parenting, Mini Vans and Vasectomies

Tools For Toddler Tantrums

Marriage: The Good,The Bad,The Reality

Are We Taking Our Kids Off Their Own Path?

The Need Behind the Action

Family Vacations Through Your Rearview Mirror

Raising an only child?

Altruism and creating happy and empowered kids.

Let's talk about 'different'

Being a Rad Parent During The Holiday Season

"Mom! Dad! Look what I found?"

Diversity, Bullying, Lying, & Death

Parenting in the face of a sexual assault epidemic

"I'm 44 yrs old, lets get pregnant!"